Ibrahim Al-Marashi and Tanya Goudsouzian

Ibrahim al-Marashi is an associate professor of Middle East history at California State University, and visiting faculty at IE University in Madrid, the American College of the Mediterranean and the Department of International Relations at Central European University. His publications include Iraq’s Armed Forces: An Analytical History (2008), The Modern History of Iraq (2017), and A Concise History of the Middle East (2024). Tanya Goudsouzian is a Canadian journalist who has covered Afghanistan and the Middle East for more than two decades. She has held senior editorial roles at major international media outlets, including serving as opinion editor at Al Jazeera English.